It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
